As long as we can keep him healthy and he doesn't have a horrible head cold (it's on January 10th), we should be okay.

Last night, to celebrate, we watched the Bear Live DVD.

Sure enough, Andrew was on the floor the entire time, dancing, clapping and laughing at all the corny jokes.

This is going to be good.

This is going to make up for the Wiggles.

Third row center.

We are going to be IN the Big Blue House, we'll be so close.

Eventually, I'm going to find out the secret to buying a child's love.

And when I do, I'll be sure to share it with you.

I'm not sure if I've ever shared this with you all.

A few years ago, Mattie Gee and I came up with this brilliant comedy duo ... Lester and Willie.

We dressed up like two ignorant rednecks and had decided in a pot-induced haze that we were going to be huge stars by doing this schtick.

Long story short ... we abandoned the project when he helped form The Spicolis which was a pretty smart move on his behalf because there's not much money out there to be showered on a couple of idiots dressed up like rednecks.

Still, we had one gig.

We were special guests at a Blood Bank drive.

Yeah.

I'm talking "Big Time".

We were a hit though. Little children lined up to get their photos taken with us.

And the other day, I ran across two of the photos.

So ... you wanna see 'em...right?

Oooooookay.

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Yeah.

And yes ... the teeth and glasses are fake.

And yesser ... I know my fly is open. That was part of the joke.

The little girl with us was our biggest fan. As you could probably tell.

I remember singing "Believe" by Cher on karaoke in that get-up and purposefully screwing it up, trying desperately to hit the high notes.

We had a good time.

But it was a rocky road and it fizzled out quickly.

That was our only gig.

In hindsight, we probably should have at least advertised the fact that you could hire us for your shindig and we'd show up to liven up the party and then leave.

Or tried to get booked in a comedy club.

Or take it to a local cable access TV show.

Or something.

Anything.

Instead, we waited for people to bust our doors down with requests to come be funny.